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    Racist Language Examples

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    profession or group of people, and are difficult for others to understand. Jargon does not necessarily imply formal education, but instead focuses on the language. Example, Business jargon; Due diligence-putting effort into research before making a business decision. 3,Slang; This are the informal words or expression that are more common in spoken languages especially used by a particular group of people. Example, Teenage slang- ''Tope'' if something is ''tope'' it's cool to the teenage contingent. So

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    7. How to Choose a Translation Provider It is an important task to choose the right translation provider these days of globalization when you often find yourself in a situation that your project requires translation from or into a foreign language. What do you do? How do you choose the right provider who meets your needs? Translation is more than $30 billion a year business in the U.S. alone and growing. The major players are translation agencies of all possible sizes, independent translators and

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    describes that someone is very,very scared. jargon -this is the “language” which is used by people in specific professions.His is not a formal way of communicating.That basically concerns only the people in their environment.For example,a language

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    have a propensity to bend and break rules of standard language so it is more playful and reflective of our boisterous national identity. In doing so, language can gain the power to shock, offend and threaten social harmony. To an extent, this is prevalent in Australian Informal language however, it is important to recognise how informal language can promote solidarity. Through the use of morphology, lexicology, syntax and semantics informal language can be used to educate and inform other about ‘taboo’

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    We were all taught about similes and metaphors at school: figurative language that allows us to not only read about something, but to help create a picture in our head. For example, the phrase ‘her eyes were blue’ is very plain and to-the-point. ‘Her eyes were as bright as stars’ makes them seem bright, welcoming, sparkling. ‘She had stars for eyes’ is much more vivid, even though technically it says the same thing. Metaphors offer much more vivid imagery because they say something is something

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    17. How to choose a translation provider? It is an important task to choose the right translation provider these days of globalization when you often find yourself in a situation that your project requires translation from or into a foreign language. What do you do? How do you choose the right provider who meets your needs? Translation is more than $30 billion a year business in the U.S. alone and growing. The major players are translation agencies of all possible sizes, independent

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    Language Study: English

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    At a first approximation, language means any system of symbolic signs used for social intercommunication, that is to say, any system of signs which serves to express and communicate ideas and feelings and content of consciousness. Below are a few examples: Idiom is a faulty style construction of language, which can give rise to ambiguity, multivocality, confusion. Example: Sick as a dog. Analogy is the correspondence and resemblance between two or more events, objects, concepts; it can be the

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    him when he said to Scarlett, “Frankly my dear, I don't give a da..,” 1960’s- Two of the main offensive insults were; “It sucks the big one”, and “That bites”, which now in our generation, we might think those are just soft sympathetic words. The ‘N’ Word: Back in 1926, in the edition of; “H.W. Fowler’s Modern English Usage” the ‘N’ word was used as slang for african americans and considered offensive if applied to non-african americans. Some have observed that the ‘N’ word was/has become one of

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    linguistic measure that ensures that at no time does the reader forget the qualifications possessed by the writer. Language can be used to convey whatever meaning, and in these words and phrases, the author is communicating her position of power. For example, when she is giving a story about dorm-room art, she says that as a professor she would have found the writings too much or a bit offensive. In that instance, she has created a

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    15 Dogs Language Analysis

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    opportunity to use language, however for some dogs, specifically Prince, a mutt, the gift of language is not completely useful in all cases. In Prince’s situation, language has great benefits, yet it also has its disadvantages. Language is ineffective for Prince in many ways, he is disliked among his pack due to his use of language, nobody understands his poems, he cannot communicate with others, and his greediness of his language brought him great grief. With the use of language, Prince becomes encompassed

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